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Pradeep Kumar

06/07/21 10:00 AM IST

CBSE to cut syllabus, hold board exams in Nov. & April

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With continuing school closures and examination disruptions due to COVID-19, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a new assessment scheme for Class 10 and 12 students this year.

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  • In 2021-22, it will reduce the syllabus, hold board examinations twice during the year in different formats, and ensure continuous recording of internal assessment scores in order to have a variety of options to calculate a final score at the end of the year, according to a notification issued on Monday night.
  • The CBSE finally asked schools to use a combination of scores from Class 10, 11 and 12 and internal marks to calculate the final results.
  • “The syllabus for the Board examination 2021-22 will be rationalised similar to that of the last academic session,” said the notification.
  • The CBSE has divided the 2021-22 academic year into two terms with 50% of the syllabus to be covered in each term, with board exams to be held at the end of each term, according to the notification.
  • The first term exam will be held on a flexible schedule between November-December 2021, with a window period of 4-8 weeks for schools situated in different parts of the country.
  • It will be a 90-minute paper with multiple choice questions only, likely to be conducted in schools with the supervision of external superintendents.
  • The second term exam will be held in March-April 2022 in examination centres, and is likely to be a two-hour exam with various question formats.
  • In case the pandemic situation is not conducive for such a long, descriptive exam to be held, the second term exam will also be conducted with a multiple choice question format.
Source: The Hindu

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